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itsh jh recorder lie ra__ai^Â»r mmm eww l svn w mwamsw ftst published bi-weddy pricf i w(m , h ./ Â«â™¦ ., kib pkice bd wednesdays 1 saturdays w wl volume xxxvii hamilton bermuda wednesday august 31 196 no 9 court hears of racial undertones in threat to shoot hotel manager new era dawns on docks tomorrow morning boston belles charm bermuda one killed white gangs beat negroes in streets of jacksonville a group of socially promin ent young bostonians are rounding out what they say is a thrilling ten-day bermuda holiday as guests at sunset lodge hotel the party is led bv miss gretchen jackson a journalist who in addition to her writing has been active for some is years in radio and stevedoring firms undergo shake-up what protends to be a new era on the colony's docks as far as stevedoring goes comes in vogue tomorrow when the fust results si a hig shake-up which has taken place amongst various stevedoring companies come into effect officially ylf hen canadian bom norman lawrence mcdonald assist ant manager of harmony hall hotel in paget grew tired of being persecuted as he alleged through his attorney by the german be rn manager of the hotel because of the former's war record and his popularity with guests and coloured people he whipped out a gun one sunday morning and threatened to shoot the manager kver since the dispute last year hetween doekworkers and stevedores which resulted ill two strikes shipping in terests and the stevedoring firms have been re-examining their television jacksonville fla aug 29 â€” racial tensions height ened by negro sit-in protests erupted in a series of inci dents here over the week-end the police brought in fire trucks and threatened to turn hoses on a crowd gathered in the center of the city tension in jacksonville aris ing from the negro protests and white resentment hroke out yesterday when a number of minor incidents included a hair-pulling between a white woman and a negro woman and the pushing of pedes trians by groups of negro . # z*m & r / 4-___r^___ul positions one firm holmes stevedoring co ltd has been com pletely reorganized with a number of shipping firms taking controlling interests as from tomorrow the firm will be under completely new management with mr cyril mastin smith formerly super intendent of the bermuda sailor's home being general manager mr dudley mutterfield m.c.p vice-president of butterfield & company which lias a shipping division managing director on monday mi-donald w,;s fined wm bv the wor a w dering how much longer things were going to continue ill icit things were at the break ing point and he kept drink ing until 10 a.m youths sedgwick who convicted hi at least three negro youths were beaten by white gangs carrying baseball bats and ax handles reporters witnessed the incident and a television cameraman was hit by one ot the white men confederate flags on two chrages nf uttering threatening words he was alleged to have told the hotel manager karl schwedler i am going to shoot vmi while the police took up constant patrols of the trouble area in an attempt to prevent violence but this morning a group of about fifty white men gather ed iu front of the variety stores carrying makeshift clubs and confederate flagp news was also revealed this week that messrs john s darrell & company another shipping firm will soon be stari ng their own stevedoring ceimpany mcdonald added that he took the starting pistol he used in canada to start stock car races and went to scare schwedler with the gun which he knew could do no harm he went past pickering and into the office but remembered nothing after that the other two firms which engage in stevedoring here ar a w west 6 son and adderley bros ltd pointing a starting pistol at the police said fourteen persons seven negroes and seven whites had been arrest ed him and to the front i i donald john pickering he was accused of saying i t me get at mr schwedler or olse i'll shoot and hill von too mr martin wilson president of the bermuda industrial iiiion which supplies the bulk of the dock labour to the steve doring firms told the recorder today that he did not think miss gretchen jackson the trip is the third for thi year for miss jackson she was here in januarv and later at easter she said yesterday that the current trip is the re sult of her having talked so much about bermuda that sin had to accompany her friends a smaller group of negroes collected on the opposite cor ner but soon dispersed i his shake-up would alter the position of the union at present he said the union has a contract with the stevedoring firms and they would continue to work according to the agreement which expires at the end of lofio there were other reports of name-calling pushing and shoving and a minor knifing continuing he said he got on well witb the manager am ate at his table until one morn ing mrs schwedler who is the head hoiisekeper at the hot -., asked him what was the pin be was wearing on his coat he told her it was the pin of the canadian regiment he fought with she then inquired if he was in the army and stated you fought against us one of the white men pass ed out mimeographed sheets signed by the segregation forces of duval county mr e t richards m.c.p i.ttorney for mcdonald coi tended that the manager persecuted mcdonald a | i made life unbearable for him while he was employed as as sistant manager the reason the attorney said was beeauv the manager found out that s assistant was in the canarf n army and fought against the germans also hecause he was popular with the guests and local staff and encouraged negroes to visit the hotel bar a cnÂ»wd estimated at more than 3,000 jammed the side walks at noon-tiape near two downtown variety stores that have been th 5 sites of recent sit-in and other anti-segrega tion demonstrations he said however that m days notice would have to he given if a new contract was desired and he expected that some time within the next 30 days such a request would hav to be made the leaflets said we have warned the merchants of jack sonville with lunch counters that if they allow our florida laws to be haunted sic we will immediately institute a county-wide boycott against any establishments guilty of such acts others in the party is mrs hazel daniels a sister-in-law of miss jackson who was ii so here at easter also miss zeita jackson who is employ ed as a private secretary to the registrar of motor vehicles in boston referendum on w i federation public discussions calculated risk coolness on local the fighting started about noon when two negro youths walked through the ranks of white men who formed in front of the f.w woolwortb company store reporters sai.i the two negroes were knocked to the sidewalk and clubbed before the police could res _â€¢â– miss barbara jackson win is secretary to the preaidsal id allied kidd a big leatb-r goods firm ; mrs edna v roosa who works for the em ployment security depart ment of the citv and has grace lane a welfare <'_â– - partment worker mcdonald said he replie ! no you fought ajrmst us he added that there was a cool ness at the table and that night he was told by he maitre d hotel he was not to sit with the manager anymore from that time ou mcdonald said he was treated like a.i office boy barbadians told franchise planned not sober ag sehwedler who has beeÂ«i employed by the hotel foi the past two years relate i how he arrived at the hotel oon sunday august 21 shortly after 8 a.m his assistant was not there but he received a telephone call from him about j.15 he recognized that th caller was not sober and he declined to talk with him later he received a message bridgetown august 29 mr norman manley premier of jamaica told a barbados audience of thousands at queen's park recently that the referendum was a calcu lated risk which he was bound to take to settle the federa tion issue in jamaica after sir alexander bustamante had decided that the j lp should work to take jamaica out of the federation tion as a political tool to bring himself back to power and was pursuing a policy cal culated to turning the minds of the people of jamaica against federation a series of public discussions on bermuda's parliamentary franchise are scheduled to take place during the next two months it was announced yesterday by a spokesman for the ex-scholars of howard academy who are sponsoring the meetings them mrs gretchen jackson told the recorder that she bat had a thrill watching her friends enjoy themselves thev have been sightseeing bea -.. ing cycling and nightcluhi'ig on monday night a cocktail party was held in tin ir honour at the lodge another negro was chased ami caught about a block the magistrate in convict ing mcdonald said that while he was taking into account the fact that he was under the extreme influence of alcohol threatening with firearms was an offence that could not he ignored by the court in view of the good character the de fendant must have had to hold such a position he was spared a term iu prison mr sedgwick declared hi knew he said that bus tamante was out on a limb and if he manley waited long enough bustainante was certain to fall awa.i taken to medical center the first will be on monday at richard allen a.m.e church st george's and t_h final meeting is scheduled for october 5 at city hall hamil ton each discussion will be presided over by a chairman two lawyers will be present one of whom will describe the colony's present system while the other will talk on the franchise in general three negroes were takes to the duval medica center their condition was not im mediately known we would be ashamed be fore history if having de clared for federation and marching toward indepen dence we should break it up by the withdrawal of one uuit l'rurn the nation from the front desk saying the accused was ill and would not be in until after lunch several other negroes were chased by mobs of whites that fanned out over at least half a dozen city blocks when the bye-election aros for the federal seat and sir alexander stated that the j li would not offer a candidate it was obvious that sir alex ander was using the federa about 10.15 a.m th manager testified the accii â€¢â– i entered his office improperly dressed swaying from side to side he wore no tie or jacket personal and social we are beading for the greatest event in our lives since columbus crosned the seas and history would con tlchili us if we failed to grasp the opportunity the largest crowd including scores of onlookers and shop pers gathered at woolworth's and near-by cohen's dep store which have been tw major targets for the negro sit-in and picketing demon strations the mobs began moving awav from the central location about 1 30 p.m after squads of county patrolmen armed with shotguns sped to the seene to reinforce city police mr and mrs hastings fubler of fubvilla shelly bay accompanied by th'-ir nephew bervin st t de left the colony on sunday for aholi day in philadelphia he alleged mcdonald whipped a panel will then carry on the discussion before the meet ing is thrown open to ques tions from the floor monday's meeting will start at 8 p.m the second iii the series will take place two days later at mount area restaurant st david's other meetings are still being scheduled m nt a gun and he the man ! ger ran from the office fear ing he was going to be shot ilo officer says no doubt jamaica could go it alone and become inde pendent but if the west in dies is to be a significant na tion and show that example of races living together iu unity then federation is the goal we have already had a liviug testimony in the u c.w.i development aim people's well-being gestapo cnder ersss examination by mr richards the manager said he was on friendly terms with the accused and had nothing against him per ly he said he did not remc n ber the accused wearing a pin of the canadian tank corp and he did not say to the ac cused : that means you fought against us german mrs e t kichan^^m daughter patricia wereout going passengers to londoi last week aim â€¢ â€¢ â€¢ each year the ex-scholars of the school undertake to carry out a public service and the scheduling of the discus sions represents this year's of the only legitimate purpose of economic development is to increase the well-being n t the individual men women and children who are the west indies â€” and who are the peo ples and nations of the world said mr e thompson deputy director of the international labour organization's mexico field office at the curr ul tcwi manpower trainiti course indies said mr thompson there is a great need for eco nomic development to improve the living standards of the people a key factor in eeo liomic development is th proper use of national re sources and the greates natural resource of all is hu man beings the workers returning to the cnlony yesterday by t.c.a plain from the west indies was mr twilton jack ingham of somerset bridge a city fire truck also was called in and the police warned the crowd it would doused if it did not break up where in the world has a similar institution achieved what the university college has in so short a timet lenng continued on page 6 in the same way the peo ples of the various territories with independence within their grasp could prove to the world that the psalmist was right in saying brethren be hold how good and joyful a thing it is to dwell together â€¢ â€¢ among the tourists vacation ing in bermuda this week are miss vivian hawkins and mi^s hazel baugh of philadelphia they arrived last saturday and are guests at sunset lodge charming young ladies they are both secretaries and are immensely impressed with the beauty of the island and the friendly hospitable people they have met schwedler admitted he w;.s in the last war but was uo iu gestapo or the secret sar as mr richards suggest d ex-scholars of howard academy the purpose of the course he said was to impart in proper methods for discovi i ing what these human re sources were and how they could best be employed in his own defence mcdon ald who had 20 years experi i me in hotel work said h had called the office to repor he would be in late as he was feeling depressed over happen ings that had been going on are a series mr thompson said the in ternational labour office-con ducted course dealt with hu man beings individual men and women who worked to make development possible he said all ilo meetings and conferences had this featur â€¢ : people actually engaged in producing goods get together with those responsible for na tional policy to trash out their problems and try to reach agreement on solutions for them sponsoring in unity in most of the less developed countries said mr thompson the first evidence of the nee i for better manpower informa tion was a growing reali/.a u of the shortage of trained prr sonncl to man the new indiis tries and of the fact that this shortage could impede mo nomic development discussions elected to royal college there concerning him th the franchise issue manager hung up twice when he called and he gave the switchboard operator a mes sage to give the manager college of surgeons burgh of edin kingston jamaica â€” mr m o woo ming has been reason to help the people to become aware of their responsibility as citizens of bermuda mr w t oo ming was a surgi cal registrar at the diners y college hospital before goii to the c.k in 1961 on a lever hulme research award he is now working at the london chest hospital â€¢ beted a fellow of the royal college of surgeons of eng land he is the first ucwi graduate to achieve this dis tinction last year he was elected a fellow of the royal breaking point beginning september 5 in st george's through october 31 in somerset he stayed in his room feel ing more depressed and began pouring scotch whiskey won leaders of the course an miss a pettijohn and mr f w mahler of ilo in countries like the west diet delightfully with diet delight

itsh jh recorder lie ra__ai^Â»r mmm eww l svn w mwamsw ftst published bi-weddy pricf i w(m , h ./ Â«â™¦ ., kib pkice bd wednesdays 1 saturdays w wl volume xxxvii hamilton bermuda wednesday august 31 196 no 9 court hears of racial undertones in threat to shoot hotel manager new era dawns on docks tomorrow morning boston belles charm bermuda one killed white gangs beat negroes in streets of jacksonville a group of socially promin ent young bostonians are rounding out what they say is a thrilling ten-day bermuda holiday as guests at sunset lodge hotel the party is led bv miss gretchen jackson a journalist who in addition to her writing has been active for some is years in radio and stevedoring firms undergo shake-up what protends to be a new era on the colony's docks as far as stevedoring goes comes in vogue tomorrow when the fust results si a hig shake-up which has taken place amongst various stevedoring companies come into effect officially ylf hen canadian bom norman lawrence mcdonald assist ant manager of harmony hall hotel in paget grew tired of being persecuted as he alleged through his attorney by the german be rn manager of the hotel because of the former's war record and his popularity with guests and coloured people he whipped out a gun one sunday morning and threatened to shoot the manager kver since the dispute last year hetween doekworkers and stevedores which resulted ill two strikes shipping in terests and the stevedoring firms have been re-examining their television jacksonville fla aug 29 â€” racial tensions height ened by negro sit-in protests erupted in a series of inci dents here over the week-end the police brought in fire trucks and threatened to turn hoses on a crowd gathered in the center of the city tension in jacksonville aris ing from the negro protests and white resentment hroke out yesterday when a number of minor incidents included a hair-pulling between a white woman and a negro woman and the pushing of pedes trians by groups of negro . # z*m & r / 4-___r^___ul positions one firm holmes stevedoring co ltd has been com pletely reorganized with a number of shipping firms taking controlling interests as from tomorrow the firm will be under completely new management with mr cyril mastin smith formerly super intendent of the bermuda sailor's home being general manager mr dudley mutterfield m.c.p vice-president of butterfield & company which lias a shipping division managing director on monday mi-donald w,;s fined wm bv the wor a w dering how much longer things were going to continue ill icit things were at the break ing point and he kept drink ing until 10 a.m youths sedgwick who convicted hi at least three negro youths were beaten by white gangs carrying baseball bats and ax handles reporters witnessed the incident and a television cameraman was hit by one ot the white men confederate flags on two chrages nf uttering threatening words he was alleged to have told the hotel manager karl schwedler i am going to shoot vmi while the police took up constant patrols of the trouble area in an attempt to prevent violence but this morning a group of about fifty white men gather ed iu front of the variety stores carrying makeshift clubs and confederate flagp news was also revealed this week that messrs john s darrell & company another shipping firm will soon be stari ng their own stevedoring ceimpany mcdonald added that he took the starting pistol he used in canada to start stock car races and went to scare schwedler with the gun which he knew could do no harm he went past pickering and into the office but remembered nothing after that the other two firms which engage in stevedoring here ar a w west 6 son and adderley bros ltd pointing a starting pistol at the police said fourteen persons seven negroes and seven whites had been arrest ed him and to the front i i donald john pickering he was accused of saying i t me get at mr schwedler or olse i'll shoot and hill von too mr martin wilson president of the bermuda industrial iiiion which supplies the bulk of the dock labour to the steve doring firms told the recorder today that he did not think miss gretchen jackson the trip is the third for thi year for miss jackson she was here in januarv and later at easter she said yesterday that the current trip is the re sult of her having talked so much about bermuda that sin had to accompany her friends a smaller group of negroes collected on the opposite cor ner but soon dispersed i his shake-up would alter the position of the union at present he said the union has a contract with the stevedoring firms and they would continue to work according to the agreement which expires at the end of lofio there were other reports of name-calling pushing and shoving and a minor knifing continuing he said he got on well witb the manager am ate at his table until one morn ing mrs schwedler who is the head hoiisekeper at the hot -., asked him what was the pin be was wearing on his coat he told her it was the pin of the canadian regiment he fought with she then inquired if he was in the army and stated you fought against us one of the white men pass ed out mimeographed sheets signed by the segregation forces of duval county mr e t richards m.c.p i.ttorney for mcdonald coi tended that the manager persecuted mcdonald a | i made life unbearable for him while he was employed as as sistant manager the reason the attorney said was beeauv the manager found out that s assistant was in the canarf n army and fought against the germans also hecause he was popular with the guests and local staff and encouraged negroes to visit the hotel bar a cnÂ»wd estimated at more than 3,000 jammed the side walks at noon-tiape near two downtown variety stores that have been th 5 sites of recent sit-in and other anti-segrega tion demonstrations he said however that m days notice would have to he given if a new contract was desired and he expected that some time within the next 30 days such a request would hav to be made the leaflets said we have warned the merchants of jack sonville with lunch counters that if they allow our florida laws to be haunted sic we will immediately institute a county-wide boycott against any establishments guilty of such acts others in the party is mrs hazel daniels a sister-in-law of miss jackson who was ii so here at easter also miss zeita jackson who is employ ed as a private secretary to the registrar of motor vehicles in boston referendum on w i federation public discussions calculated risk coolness on local the fighting started about noon when two negro youths walked through the ranks of white men who formed in front of the f.w woolwortb company store reporters sai.i the two negroes were knocked to the sidewalk and clubbed before the police could res _â€¢â– miss barbara jackson win is secretary to the preaidsal id allied kidd a big leatb-r goods firm ; mrs edna v roosa who works for the em ployment security depart ment of the citv and has grace lane a welfare